Solidarity Economy in Latin America/Agitarte

Location: Santurce, Puerto Rico

Website or Social Media links:

https://agitarte.org/

https://twitter.com/AgitArte

https://www.instagram.com/agitarte_cultural_works/

Journalistic Resources: https://abladeofgrass.org/articles/organizing-mutual-solidarity-projects-act-resistance-puerto-rico/

Details of the work

Goals or Focus

"cultural solidarity, creative process and popular education, we initiate and facilitate arts and cultural projects with grassroots communities that contest U.S. cultural hegemony and propose alternatives to existing systems of oppression. We do this in our creative work by centering the experiences of oppressed people in resistance through interdisciplinary storytelling/media, and in our mutual solidarity, through trainings, workshops and running a physical space for educational programming in Santurce, Puerto Rico." (About, Agitarte.org)

Values

education, art, opposition to U.S. cultural hegemony, mutual solidarity

General Category

art, protest, community resource

Time Frame

2016